Animals...
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Re: Animals...
Postby Chanboy » Fri Aug 07, 2009 9:04 pm
Congratulations grw, glad you got to see some of our crazy country life. Pity about your knee... but sounds like you still accomplished a no mean feat!
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Re: Animals...
Postby hartleymartin » Sun Aug 09, 2009 9:53 pm
Congratulations at completing your tour. Now weekend excursions and overnight trips will seem like peanuts to you.
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Re: Animals...
Postby grw » Wed Aug 26, 2009 11:30 am
Just back from completing the rest of my planned original tour. The ride from Barrington over the tops to Scone was hard work - lots of climbing over the dirt road. I camped at Devils Hole to break it up over two days. Also had a longish day from Scone to Mudgee via Wollar. Although fairly flat, it was 170km in total, with a 55km section on dirt road, and with panniers and on the dirt roads, took me just over 11 hours, assisted by a few nurofen and coca cola. Definitely ready for a few pints and an evening in front of the cricket in Mudgee after that, where I treated myself to a room in the pub rather than camping.
The only animals which proved a problem were a few magpies which scared the living daylights out of me near Merriwa, and a couple of dobermans which chased me near Oberon. Glad I had a slight dowhill at that stage! I was quite surprised by the amount and smell of Australian roadkill too - some of which makes itself known a km or so before you see it!
Good descent down into Jenolan Caves made a little hairier by the very wet and windy weather. 'Interesting' ride out too!
The route for the second part of my tour is at:
http://www.mapmyride.com/ride/australia ... 4430854329
Thanks again for the help.
Cheers
Gareth
The only animals which proved a problem were a few magpies which scared the living daylights out of me near Merriwa, and a couple of dobermans which chased me near Oberon. Glad I had a slight dowhill at that stage! I was quite surprised by the amount and smell of Australian roadkill too - some of which makes itself known a km or so before you see it!
Good descent down into Jenolan Caves made a little hairier by the very wet and windy weather. 'Interesting' ride out too!
The route for the second part of my tour is at:
http://www.mapmyride.com/ride/australia ... 4430854329
Thanks again for the help.
Cheers
Gareth
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Re: Animals...
Postby Chanboy » Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:03 pm
Great achievement mate.
How did the bike hold up? no bushman's repairs on the side of the road?
How did the bike hold up? no bushman's repairs on the side of the road?
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Re: Animals...
Postby grw » Thu Aug 27, 2009 4:39 pm
Bike was fine - other than a slight rear wheel buckle which had me mucking about with the spoke key - not quite perfect but enough to keep me going. Just one flat as I was setting off (within 200m of the front door).Chanboy wrote:How did the bike hold up? no bushman's repairs on the side of the road?
I used an extended tubus rear axle as there's no rack mounts on the bike, and to begin with I was a bit unsure how it'd cope with the load on rougher roads. Seemed fine though, but then I guess I'm only 70kg and my lugage probbly wasn't more than 25kg, and I guess bikes are easily able to cope with the combined weight of that lot!
cheers
g.
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Re: Animals...
Postby WarrenH » Sat Jun 12, 2010 4:25 pm
It isn't necessarily the larger animals that one should worry about ... the little creatures can be dangerous.
One injury which I had and shouldn't have had, was tick toxemia. On the South Coast of NSW near Tumbledown Mountain I was bitten by a Paralysis Tick. I've had several ticks bites with no issues, but one time, things took a turn for the worse.
I went to the local health clinic about 5 times after returning home from Tumbledown Mountain and couldn't convince several foreign trained doctors that I had removed the body of a Paralysis Tick from the back of my leg, but I couldn't get the head out because it was too deep and awkward to get at. Several times I was told, "Ticks don't burrow". Even asked by one doctor, "What is a tick?". "It is an infected hair follicle" another doctor said. "If you think there is a tick in there it will eject itself eventually," said another. I kept telling the doctors otherwise. On the fifth day after being bitten, I collapsed on the lounge room floor, and was leaving this planet.
My wife returned home from her work during her lunch break to check on me because she was concerned that I was not well, and more ill that morning than any of the other days after being bitten. She got me into the car and drove to the medical centre and a doctor with experience of venomous local wildlife said, "He looks like he has Tick toxemia, has he been to the coast recently?" I can remember my wife saying, "He has been telling the doctors here, that its a Tick all week." In Canberra Hospital, a couple of days later, one of the doctors told me, that I was so toxic when I was admitted that the medical staff thought that they had lost me on the night, that I was admitted. I'm lucky that I slept through the whole drama in hospital, for a few days ... and I'm too evil to die.
In March last year, I brushed a log on a fire trail on the Boyd Plateau and was bitten by a Redback. Four days after being bitten I had an extreme reaction when the venom finally reached the lymph nodes in my groin. I ended up in Calvary Hospital for 11 days. 12 months later, I was still on medication. After 10 months, the bite flared up. A doctor said, "There appears to be residual venom in your body." The doctor was thinking about giving me some extra antivenin. Thankfully that didn't happen. I've had enough of being poked and jabbed and being jabbed some more, thanks to a little Redback. Now 15 months later, I'm almost back to being at my best. 15 months later ... and some expert discussant earlier wrote about the dangers of being out there as, "its a marketing campaign."
My leg 5 days after the Redback bite, when I was admitted to hospital. One of the symptoms of the bite was much sweating.
A bloke went bush earlier this year with minimal gear ... http://www.examiner.com.au/news/local/n ... 04058.aspx
A quote from the Examiner article, "He spent the time on the way to hospital reassuring his worried mother, explaining to her how the poison worked and how it wasn't going to kill him quickly."
One of Australia's least venomous dangerous snake is the Black Snake, which obviously didn't kill him quickly ... but the effects over a lifetime might be interesting.
Some time ago, when I was was working as a professional guide, I received a letter from a medical research officer, who was working in a Psychiatry and Public Health Department at one of the universities, I think it was Newcastle. He was studying the changes in people after the loss of a limb as a result of contracting emphysema.
IIRC, the Uni Department had sent thousands of letters to amputees asking for information on their life style. What he was finding was, that the majority of amputations were caused by emphysema, diabetes, accidents and cancer, the norm. When we chatted, he asked me if I knew of anyone who had been bitten by a Black Snake. I'm guessing Wilderness First Aid Consultants may have given him my contact, I was one of their students. He said he was finding amputations with people who were neither smokers, diabetics, accident victims or sufferers of cancer ... they were people who had been bitten by a Black Snake on the limb that was amputated ... bitten 20 years earlier. I remember him saying, the figures were coming from drovers and farm workers.
I remember him saying the results of the survey were forming a pattern that was disturbing involving Black Snakes. A possible long term necrosis. After that one chat, I didn't talk to him again and have no follow-up info.
What many of us think as the timid, relatively harmless Black Snake, which normally doesn't bite on the first strike, the snake strikes with the mouth closed initially but will bite, if still threatened ... gives me a particular shiver when I see one. A shiver that not even an Eastern Brown gives me.
It was a good year this year ... I didn't see a Black Snake. In fact, I haven't seen a snake all year ... this is just how I like it.
I'm working on a property at the moment to the North of Canberra. The owner of the property Jill, was saying that at the Rural Field Days that she goes to, there is often a chap, a snake handler, who lectures the farmers and graziers about snakes. Eastern Browns, Tigers and Blacks are very common here and Copperheads less common. Jill said to me that at a field day late last year, she was told that the most dangerous time with snakes is when they first come out of hibernation. I asked her, "They are slow moving and can't flee or get out of the road being still cold, because the ground and air temperatures are cold?" Jill replied, "The snake expert said that after hibernation snakes have large quantities of venom, that has built up during hibernation."
Warren.
One injury which I had and shouldn't have had, was tick toxemia. On the South Coast of NSW near Tumbledown Mountain I was bitten by a Paralysis Tick. I've had several ticks bites with no issues, but one time, things took a turn for the worse.
I went to the local health clinic about 5 times after returning home from Tumbledown Mountain and couldn't convince several foreign trained doctors that I had removed the body of a Paralysis Tick from the back of my leg, but I couldn't get the head out because it was too deep and awkward to get at. Several times I was told, "Ticks don't burrow". Even asked by one doctor, "What is a tick?". "It is an infected hair follicle" another doctor said. "If you think there is a tick in there it will eject itself eventually," said another. I kept telling the doctors otherwise. On the fifth day after being bitten, I collapsed on the lounge room floor, and was leaving this planet.
My wife returned home from her work during her lunch break to check on me because she was concerned that I was not well, and more ill that morning than any of the other days after being bitten. She got me into the car and drove to the medical centre and a doctor with experience of venomous local wildlife said, "He looks like he has Tick toxemia, has he been to the coast recently?" I can remember my wife saying, "He has been telling the doctors here, that its a Tick all week." In Canberra Hospital, a couple of days later, one of the doctors told me, that I was so toxic when I was admitted that the medical staff thought that they had lost me on the night, that I was admitted. I'm lucky that I slept through the whole drama in hospital, for a few days ... and I'm too evil to die.
In March last year, I brushed a log on a fire trail on the Boyd Plateau and was bitten by a Redback. Four days after being bitten I had an extreme reaction when the venom finally reached the lymph nodes in my groin. I ended up in Calvary Hospital for 11 days. 12 months later, I was still on medication. After 10 months, the bite flared up. A doctor said, "There appears to be residual venom in your body." The doctor was thinking about giving me some extra antivenin. Thankfully that didn't happen. I've had enough of being poked and jabbed and being jabbed some more, thanks to a little Redback. Now 15 months later, I'm almost back to being at my best. 15 months later ... and some expert discussant earlier wrote about the dangers of being out there as, "its a marketing campaign."
My leg 5 days after the Redback bite, when I was admitted to hospital. One of the symptoms of the bite was much sweating.
A bloke went bush earlier this year with minimal gear ... http://www.examiner.com.au/news/local/n ... 04058.aspx
A quote from the Examiner article, "He spent the time on the way to hospital reassuring his worried mother, explaining to her how the poison worked and how it wasn't going to kill him quickly."
One of Australia's least venomous dangerous snake is the Black Snake, which obviously didn't kill him quickly ... but the effects over a lifetime might be interesting.
Some time ago, when I was was working as a professional guide, I received a letter from a medical research officer, who was working in a Psychiatry and Public Health Department at one of the universities, I think it was Newcastle. He was studying the changes in people after the loss of a limb as a result of contracting emphysema.
IIRC, the Uni Department had sent thousands of letters to amputees asking for information on their life style. What he was finding was, that the majority of amputations were caused by emphysema, diabetes, accidents and cancer, the norm. When we chatted, he asked me if I knew of anyone who had been bitten by a Black Snake. I'm guessing Wilderness First Aid Consultants may have given him my contact, I was one of their students. He said he was finding amputations with people who were neither smokers, diabetics, accident victims or sufferers of cancer ... they were people who had been bitten by a Black Snake on the limb that was amputated ... bitten 20 years earlier. I remember him saying, the figures were coming from drovers and farm workers.
I remember him saying the results of the survey were forming a pattern that was disturbing involving Black Snakes. A possible long term necrosis. After that one chat, I didn't talk to him again and have no follow-up info.
What many of us think as the timid, relatively harmless Black Snake, which normally doesn't bite on the first strike, the snake strikes with the mouth closed initially but will bite, if still threatened ... gives me a particular shiver when I see one. A shiver that not even an Eastern Brown gives me.
It was a good year this year ... I didn't see a Black Snake. In fact, I haven't seen a snake all year ... this is just how I like it.
I'm working on a property at the moment to the North of Canberra. The owner of the property Jill, was saying that at the Rural Field Days that she goes to, there is often a chap, a snake handler, who lectures the farmers and graziers about snakes. Eastern Browns, Tigers and Blacks are very common here and Copperheads less common. Jill said to me that at a field day late last year, she was told that the most dangerous time with snakes is when they first come out of hibernation. I asked her, "They are slow moving and can't flee or get out of the road being still cold, because the ground and air temperatures are cold?" Jill replied, "The snake expert said that after hibernation snakes have large quantities of venom, that has built up during hibernation."
Warren.
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